[ILQSO] survey

[ilqso@mailman.qth.net]

Jim,  Thanks again for your continuing help to us in RAMS to make the
ILQP what it is.  
 73     Bud Frohardt   W9DY
Here is my input:

__1_   Loyalty to a state, club or individuals participating
 
___    Likelihood of winning a category
 
___   Tangible rewards provided by sponsor (trophies, plaques,
certificates, other)
 
___   Tangible rewards available based on level of achievement (T-shirts,
coffee mugs that can be purchased)
 
__5_   Convenient and enjoyable way to spend part of a weekend   Used to
enjoy mobiling in tests but 
            have not been able to do so for several years.   Will leave
that to the younger guys.  Now just happy 
            to be able to do the portable bit.      
 
__2_   Length of contest
 
__4_   Rules format     Am satisfied with most of the rules. ( I should
be since most of the original version
                was my idea back in the sixties.   Especially proud of
the short duration which we were the first
                to use.   My wife takes the credit for this so I could
get home from church in time to begin                         playing. 
Am beginning to lean toward accepting suggestions of some who would give
some                         kind  of credit for counties worked from as
mobiles.   Main problem is the rules are so bulky                        
already.
                Also would like to resolve the excessive scoring by
jumping from band to band between locals to 
                take advantage of the 8-qso bonuses.   
 
__3_   Opportunity to try out my mobile/portable station and test my
skills
 
___   OTHER:   We need to do something about log submissions by
electronic means.  We received so                           many logs in
various formats and most if not all  had NO  SUMMARY SHEETS, dupe 
                          sheets, indication of new multipliers, etc. as
required by  the rules.    This caused  the                          
committee much work that should have been done by the sender.   As a
result,                                            the scoring was
delayed by weeks.   The committee was tempted to classify many as check  
                        logs but we decided not to but I hope the problem
can be resolved this year.    


        73    Bud Frohardt   W9DY